21. April 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Update June 2021: The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) released a report on April 26 with newly analyzed figures. In the last decade, a total of 176 attacks on lawyers were recorded, including 73 murders, the vast majority of which – 54 fatal...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Past Sunday, March 7, 2021, nine activists have been killed and six arrested in what has been called a massacre by the hand of state security forces. This Sunday will entry in the history books as the “Bloody Sunday”. In Calabarzon, equiped with 24 search...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Amnesty International UK has issued a report urging the UK government to take more measures for human rights defenders worldwide. The report focuses especially on the situation in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Libya, Russia and Zimbabwe. In regards to...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Senator Leila De Lima has been imprisoned since February 2017. She is being accused of being involved in illegal drug trade. De Lima is convinced that these accusations are a reaction to her investigations of Dutertes human rights violations in his bloody war against...
16. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders and rights activists have gathered in front of the cathedral of Cologne, Germany on 10th December. The philippinenbüro e.V. which is based in Cologne organised the protest in order to remember the many victims of human rights violations in the...
16. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders
The International Human Rights Day in the Philippines was marked by a wave of arrests. Among the victims was journalist Lady Anne Salem who was working for the red tagged alternative news site Manila Today. All have been arrested for alleged posession of firearms....
